"The Midday Shadow" Arjun and Priya believed their marriage was a "perfect harmony," a state of "one heart and one soul". But as the "midday of life" arrives, their "unconscious oneness" begins to rot. Arjun, the "Container," starts "spying out of the window," driven by a "fatal compulsion" to find the unity his complex nature lacks. Priya, the "Contained," feels a "disquieting dependence" on a man she no longer recognizes. When Arjun becomes "possessed" by the Anima—a "sphinxlike" image of a woman that exists only in his mind—the "magic circle" of their life shatters. As Priya discovers "unwished-for guests" in the rooms of her heart, she is forced into a "severest shock". To survive, they must undergo a "metamorphosis" that few marriages ever reach. Will they remain "tools of instinct," or will the "pain" of their crisis give birth to a truth they never dared to see?